I am a producer on the new daytime talk show "Dr. Keith Ablow." We are doing a story on phobias. We would like to hear your story. Please email or call me if...
hi i have a phobia of drains pipes and things like that. I get all weird feeling like i start sweating when i even think about pipes or drains. I don't even...
Ever since I was little I have had a crippling fear of swimming pool drains. If I am in the pool I start getting nervous that I might be near it, but dont want...
I read your statement with a sigh of dispair. I know exactly what you are going through, every word of it. Indeed a phobia, it's horrible, stupid but it's...
i have a phobia of black olives, i was reading about it and i have the same phobia. i bit into one when i was eating a salad at an italian restaraunt and i...
People commonly handle phobias in one of three ways. First, they completely avoid dealing with it because they believe it would be too painful to handle....
Hello all, I'm hoping that you can help me find out anything about my phobia ... I've never found anyone with this same irrational fear: I can't stand being...
when I was young I used to get strep alot and I developed a fear od tongue depressors. Whenever I go to the doctor and they try to use one on me I just start...
I have quite an odd fear myself. Well, actually there are two fears. I highly dislike it when people try to grab my wrists. I feel as if the veins my wrist...
my sister has a weird fear. I understand that you should naturally be afraid of being stabbed in the eye with a pointy stick(pencil,pen, sharpened stick.......
I cant stand anything to do with bellybuttons. I wont allow anyone to touch mine. The idea of cutting a babys cord makes me feel ill. when i see piercings I...
i have an irrational fear of the roots (or 'eyes') of potatoes.... i can't touch a potatoe if there is any signs of a root...i can't open the bag or reach...
Hello all, I'm hoping that you can help me find out anything about my phobia ... I've never found anyone with this same irrational fear: I can't stand being...
I have never heard of that phobia but i can totally understand where your coming from. I get a really spooked feeling if i'm between two mirrors too its like...
Hi everyone, my name is Chelsea Hottovy. I'm a writer for Drake University's magazine, Drake Mag, in Des Moines, Iowa. I'm currently writing a story about...
Hi! My name is Rita and I have a very unusual fear: I'm afraid of potatoes that are growing. I'm fine with ordinary potatoes, but when they get left in a...
Hi Rita. I can also understand this. I found some potatoes in a cupboard a while ago and the roots were really long and thick. They almost looked like some...
Thanks! I don't feel quite so weird now :) What's odd is that potatoes are one of my favorite foods, just as loong as they aren't growing roots. ... while ago...
i'm petrified of potatoes....even any small roots and i can't touch them....if someone was to touch me with one i cry...scream....nad hyperventilate.... ...
Hi I am Meigz. For a number of years I have had some strange as well as odd phobias. I am going to name them for you people in the group and please let me know...
Hello. My name is Tobias, but you can call me Toby, or Moo, or whatever. Anyways, I have this really big fear of exteamly unlikely... doom, I guess you could...
I'm Ashley. So I have this fear of throwing trash away in other people's trash on Trash day. It's like when people have their trash cans out for the garbage...
I have this fear that's kinda like being afraid of hights, only different. If I'm up realy high, like the top of a skyscraper or something, and there's a rail...
Well, I kinda know how you feel; I bet this weird fealing when going over hills in a car. It's that feeling of when you go up or down realy fast and it feels...
i have a fear of looking at the clock at 9:11 and also a fear of my life being fake i guess you would call it, like everyone in my life is in on the joke and...